Your intrepid CFC Governor is going to play in the mid-sized tournament between July 15 ( today ), and Friday, July 20, the Toronto International Open ( TIO ). It is a 7 round, three section, swiss. It can be classed as a notch above the normal local weekend swiss. Playing in the " Crown " section are 3 GM's and 2 IM's :
GM Sambuev. Bator - current Canadian Champion;
GM So, Wesley - one of the world's 2700 players, and top player in the Philippines;
GM Rozentalis. Eduardas - of Lithuania;
IM Noritsyn, Nikolay - former Canadian Champion;
IM Panjwani, Raja - former Canadian Junior Champion
In a number of prior years, I have played in the major 9-round Canadian Open Championship ( Unfortunately, I had to miss this year's Victoria, B.C. version ). For each time I've played them, recently, I have carried on an U 2000 Section blog on this board, with Larry's blessing! I have always gotten very positive feedback to my blog over the years, and it has been fun to do it, and to highlight what happens with us class players, down in the bowels of the tournament. It gets next to no coverage during the tournament, usually.
So for the TIO, I have decided to again post an U 1900 Blog on this board ( I am the bottom rated of 26 pre-registered players in the section, at 1645 ). But this year, since the Cooperative Chess Coalition ( CCC ), of which I am founder and Coordinator, is now running the CCC FB chess discussion board, CCC - Chess Posts of Interest, I thought " Likes " from other countries, might also like to see what a Canadian class player does while playing in a longer somewhat major tournament. I blog not only about the tournament, but about my life during the tournament, off the chess board. So I will also be reposting my Canadian postings there - I hope that you, and the FB " Likes ", will find them somewhat interesting. I invite comments from all, and will try to respond to any questions. See you all after rd. 2 tonight, or early tomorrow AM.
Bob, CFC Governor & CCC Member/Coordinator, Canada
GM Sambuev. Bator - current Canadian Champion;
GM So, Wesley - one of the world's 2700 players, and top player in the Philippines;
GM Rozentalis. Eduardas - of Lithuania;
IM Noritsyn, Nikolay - former Canadian Champion;
IM Panjwani, Raja - former Canadian Junior Champion
In a number of prior years, I have played in the major 9-round Canadian Open Championship ( Unfortunately, I had to miss this year's Victoria, B.C. version ). For each time I've played them, recently, I have carried on an U 2000 Section blog on this board, with Larry's blessing! I have always gotten very positive feedback to my blog over the years, and it has been fun to do it, and to highlight what happens with us class players, down in the bowels of the tournament. It gets next to no coverage during the tournament, usually.
So for the TIO, I have decided to again post an U 1900 Blog on this board ( I am the bottom rated of 26 pre-registered players in the section, at 1645 ). But this year, since the Cooperative Chess Coalition ( CCC ), of which I am founder and Coordinator, is now running the CCC FB chess discussion board, CCC - Chess Posts of Interest, I thought " Likes " from other countries, might also like to see what a Canadian class player does while playing in a longer somewhat major tournament. I blog not only about the tournament, but about my life during the tournament, off the chess board. So I will also be reposting my Canadian postings there - I hope that you, and the FB " Likes ", will find them somewhat interesting. I invite comments from all, and will try to respond to any questions. See you all after rd. 2 tonight, or early tomorrow AM.
Bob, CFC Governor & CCC Member/Coordinator, Canada
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